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tamarawill24
4 years agoExplorer | Level 3
How Do I Prevent Dropbox Paper from Converting Plain Text URLs into Hyperlinks?
Hi Everyone:
I was using a different file hosting service. However, I experienced recurring issues and decided to try Dropbox.
That service also has document-editing functionality which a...
- 4 years agoHey tamarawill24, thanks for your post about Dropbox Paper!
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey tamarawill24, thanks for your post about Dropbox Paper!
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
At the moment, with the way Paper works, the URLs will appear as hyperlinks with previews of the linked site.
However, you're welcome to post an idea about this on our Paper idea board, for other users to upvote.
Let me know if you have any questions.
norabrowndesign
6 months agoNew member | Level 2
I also find this very annoying, and don't want my collaborators to have to learn to use ``` backticks just to stop urls from turning into link previews. For now I will have to go back to a shared Google Doc.
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